Mini-Conference: Managing Artificial Intelligence (AI) Projects

Project Management World's Fourth Mini-Conference will be online and features four presenters with AI project experience in different industries. Presentations will be followed by a panel discussion

Also see https://projectmanagementworld.org/2021-mini-conference/

White paper to all who attend and fill out the survey: Combining AI and Behavioral Science Responsibly

Door Prize: Project Management Skills for All Careers - $29.95 value.

Due to contributions, this event is now free of charge.

PANEL MODERATOR: Mitchell Levy, CEO, ThiNKaha
Mitchell has interviewed over 500 thought leaders from across the world on their credibility. This led him to uncover amazing insights on what credibility really is and why it’s important in today’s world, making him the go-to expert on credibility.

Mitchell has been a Silicon-Valley based Thought Leadership Evangelist for 25 years, has been chairman of the board of a NASDAQ-listed company, and is a TEDx/Commencement speaker. He is also an International bestselling author of over 60 books and has created twenty businesses in Silicon Valley including four publishing companies that have published over 750 books.

SPEAKERS:

Ravi Aacharya, R&D Project Manager, Hologic, Inc.
Hologic, Inc. in the medical device industry for Breast and Skeletal Health. This innovative medical technology company seeks to enable healthier lives everywhere, every day. He is passionate about working alongside healthcare technology products to improve quality of life.

Ravi loves developing strategies in product marketing and analyzing the most efficient and effective way possible. He has a Bachelor's degree in Healthcare Technology and Management with a Minor in Computer Science and Business from San Jose State University.

Patrick D. Bangert, PhD Vice President of Artificial Intelligence,
Samsung SDS America
Patrick is a visionary for the future of AI at Samsung and believes AI must serve humanity beyond mere automation of routine tasks. He is responsible for Brightics AI Accelerator, a distributed machine learning (ML) training and automated ML product, and X.Insights, a data center intelligence platform.

Prior to Samsung, he spent 15 years as CEO at Algorithmica Technologies, a machine learning software company for chemicals and oil and gas industries. He has a machine learning PhD in mathematics and Masters in theoretical physics from University College London.

Martin Stanley Branch Chief, Strategic Technology,
Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency

Martin Stanley, CISSP, is the Branch Chief for Strategic Technology at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). Martin led the Cybersecurity Assurance Program at CISA and the Enterprise Cybersecurity Program at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Prior to his federal service Martin held executive leadership positions at Vonage and UUNET Technologies. Martin is co-author of Digital Health: Understanding the Benefit-Risk Patient-Provider Framework.

Ajita John, PhD Vice President of Artificial Intelligence
Koopid
Ajita is Founding Engineer at Koopid. She leads the company’s efforts to bring the latest developments in natural language processing and deep learning to conversational AI and backend data architecture to real-time data analytics.

Ajita holds 30+ patents, has published in leading peer-reviewed conferences such as AAAI, WWW, CHI, CSCW, and ICWSM. Ajita is an Adjunct Professor at Rutgers University and holds a PhD in computer science from the University of Texas.